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Printing forms data results in PDFs that do not show any data

Asked by
fieldacademy
on March 18, 2015 at 07:06 PM

ons as pdfs for our records, all of the text for the form disappears. This is for things like signing consents, so it's kind of meaningless when the submission has a signature with no text to show what they're signing.

Based on what you have mentioned I presume that you were downloading PDF as described in this guide: How to Create a PDF Form?

If so, please note that this option is to create an empty PDF form that resembles your jotform as closely as possible and it is similar to the new Fillable PDF feature, but it will not create the same type of PDF - the one created using the steps above will make static PDF pages instead.

The dynamic or fillable PDFs are created using this tool: The Fillable PDF Form Creator but this tool will too create an empty PDF file, but will allow you to use it in your Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader or Foxit software to fill out and save, or print.

* Depending on the PDF Reader version, you might not be able to save the file after filling it out, but you would get a notification of that if so.

To get the PDF with the submitted data on it, you should instead create a different kind of PDF - submission PDF.